Organisation Design and Effectiveness Manager (110561-0625)

Organisation Design and Effectiveness Manager (110561-0625)

Organisation Design and Effectiveness Manager (110561-0625)

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About The Role
For informal enquiries, please contact Katharine Redding Cox (Head of Organisation Design & Effectiveness)
Role
In this role you will be working in a new team, building the capability to support operating model change, identify people and organisational impacts and define project outcomes. You will be leading work to :

• Diagnose the people and organisation implications of the change, paying careful attention to commercial, legal and financial risk
• Design effective options to senior stakeholders and business leads across all components of the operating model
• Develop ways of working and organisational improvement
• Deliver change, working collaboratively with colleagues from across the organisation.

The team will use excellent practice, theory and research to support individual, team, departmental and whole system organisation improvements, using the disciplines of continuous improvement, organisational design, organisational development and behaviour change.
About You
You’ll have experience in the diagnosis, design and delivery of organisational change, whether that’s through restructuring, or creating interventions to help organisations work more effectively. You’ll be able to build great relationships and work collaboratively to get the best results from happy stakeholders at all levels.
Proficient with Microsoft, you’re able to translate ideas into tangible options and can build business cases for change, before leading the change through to conclusion. You’re also able to build a culture of continuous improvement and are familiar with various organisation design methods and models, including Agile ways of working and holistic operating model development. Analytical skills are also important for data led decision making, with a people focused angle.
You’ll be able to see the bigger picture and think creatively to understand issues and options to resolve them, utilising your broader knowledge and experience from extensive research and contacts.
For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.
About The Department
It’s an exciting time to join us at Warwick, as Organisation Design & People Change is a newly forming team that will play a critical role in leading successful people change activity across the organisation, end to end. Aligning to the Warwick 2030 strategic priorities, you’ll be supporting the introduction of organisation design capability at Warwick.
Alongside a specific organisation design project, we will spend time developing our organisational capability and capacity to operate as a centre of excellence and expertise as part of the People Strategy implementation, so if you’re interested in continuous personal development and the chance to build a new capability in the organisation, then this is the place.
About The University
Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be ‘world leading or internationally excellent’**.
You\’ll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.

• QS World University Rankings 2024
• Research Excellence Framework 2021

To find out more about us visit our website.
How to Apply
CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 15th July 2025 at 23:55 (BST)
To apply, please click ‘Apply’ below and submit an application form by the closing date.
Please plan for any potential delays as you will not be able to submit an application form past this deadline (even if you opened the form at, say, 23:30).
You will have to attach a CV and a cover letter.

• Your CV should include your employment history (including your most recent employment), your education history, and any other relevant experience.
• Your cover letter should explain your motivations for applying to the role. It should also explain, using examples, how you meet each of the essential and desirable criteria detailed in the Job Description PDF document below. Please note that all essential criteria must be met by candidates who are invited to interview.

Please see here for guidance on writing a cover letter. We highly recommend using individual criteria as headers and explaining below, using examples, how you meet the criterion, though you are free to format the letter as you wish.
To streamline our hiring processes, we can only accept applications submitted via our official careers webpage, warwick-careers.tal.net.

• Interview Date: To be confirmed
• Desired Start Date: 28th July 2025

What we Offer
We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.
We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer you access to flexible working, for more information click here.
We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer.
If you are considering relocating to the UK, read our Relocation Guide to find out more about what Warwick has to offer and what might be involved in the process.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
Warwick is committedto building an organisation ofmutual respectanddignity, promoting awelcoming, diverse, and inclusive workingand learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to berecognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.
We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpageshere.
The University currently holds aRace Equality Charter Bronze Award,Athena Swan Sliver Awardand aDisability Smart Bronze Award.Further information on all of the University\’s Awards and Accreditations can be found here. The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of theEUTOPIA European University Alliance.
Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS)
The University of Warwick is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all those we work with.
In line with the DBS Code of Practice, the successful candidates for any roles involving regulated activity, will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. The University will take all necessary measures to ensure that any individual subject to a barring order does not undertake any work with the barred group specified (i.e. children and/or adults).
We expect all employees, volunteers, and partners to share our commitment to safeguarding.
Rehabilitation of Ex-Offenders
The University undertakes not to discriminate against anyone who makes a disclosure relating to a conviction. The information disclosed at application stage is only visible to the central DBS team (i.e. not recruiting managers) to ensure there is no bias during the shortlisting process.
Job Description
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